Baronin Kubinyi
Tragedia inspirada en una obra de teatro de John Osborne que, a su vez, se basa en hechos reales. Segunda película de una trilogía sobre el imperio Austro-Húngaro: la primera es ’Mephisto’, y la tercera, ’Hanussen’. Mientras se produce la desmembración del imperio Austro-Húngaro, el joven Alfred Redl ingresa en el ejército y asciende de forma meteórica. Redl llega a alcanzar el grado de coronel y realiza un impecable trabajo dentro de los servicios de contraespionaje. Su homosexualidad, que trata de mantener oculta, será el detonante de su estrepitosa caída en desgracia.
The "sleepless years" in this propaganda piece by director Felix Marlassy occur on Csepel Island, an island south of Budapest that is home to an armaments factory. The factory workers are shown being exploited by imperialists, capitalists gone berserk, and fascists, more or less in that exact chronological sequence. The heavy-handed approach does much to undercut the belief that when socialism finally takes over, the lives of the workers are brought up to a human level. In this instance, audiences might prefer a more nuanced and subtle statement, no matter what the message.
In the thirties, the poor living by the Romanian-Hungarian border, were forced to smuggling if they wanted to survive. Mihály, the Hungarian peasant, kills a border guard while fleeing. He is fed up with smuggling and wants to put an end to it, yet he needs money to get a job so he embarks on another turn.
